Beloved: Who indeed is the victor over the
world but the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of
God? This is the one who came through water and Blood,
Jesus Christ, not by water alone, but by water and
Blood.The
Spirit is the one who testifies, and the Spirit is
truth.So there
are three who testify, the Spirit, the water, and the
Blood,and the
three are of one accord.If we accept human testimony, the testimony of
God is surely greater.

Now the testimony of God is this, that he has
testified on behalf of his Son.Whoever believes in the Son of God has this testimony within himself. Whoever
does not believe God has made him a liar by not
believing the testimony God has given about his Son. And this is the testimony: God gave us eternal
life, and this life is in his Son.Whoever possesses the Son
has life; whoever does not possess the Son of God does
not have life. I write these things to you so that you
may know that you have eternal life, you who believe in the name of the Son of God.

Psalm Ps 147: 12-13. 14-15. 19-20.

R. (12a) Praise the Lord, Jerusalem.

or:

R.
Alleluia.

Glorify the LORD, O Jerusalem;

praise your God, O Zion.

For he has
strengthened the bars of your gates;

he has blessed your children within you.

R. Praise the Lord, Jerusalem.

or:

R. Alleluia.

He has granted
peace in your borders;

with the best of wheat he fills you.

He sends forth his command to the
earth;

swiftly runs his word!

R. Praise the Lord, Jerusalem.

or:

R. Alleluia.

He has
proclaimed his word to Jacob,

his statutes and his ordinances to Israel.

He has not
done thus for any other nation;

his ordinances he has not made known to them.
Alleluia.

R. Praise the Lord, Jerusalem.

or:

R. Alleluia.

Gospel Lk
5: 12-16.

It happened that there was a man full of leprosy
in one of the towns where Jesus was; and when he saw Jesus, he fell prostrate, pleaded with him, and said, "Lord, if you wish, you can make me clean." Jesus stretched out his hand, touched him, and
said, "I do will it. Be made
clean." And the leprosy left
him immediately.

Then he ordered him not to tell anyone, but "Go, show yourself to the priest and offer for your cleansing what Moses prescribed; that will be proof for them." The report about him spread all the more, and great crowds assembled to listen to him and to be cured of their ailments, but he would withdraw to deserted places to pray.

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